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• Black Ops vet says his mystery PlayStation project wasn't a live-service game, and even if Sony shutting down his studio "f***ing sucked" he reckons it's just because "times change"

  25-03-2026 22:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Earlier this week, reports emerged that Sony was shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, a first-party studio led by Call of Duty: Black Ops veteran Jason Blundell. Today, Blundell confirmed the news on a Twitch stream hosted by another member of the Dark Outlaw Games team, JCbackfire."We have to respect confidentiality so we can’t go into every gory detail," Blundell said during the stream, as highlighted by Kotaku. Neither dev revealed much about the project, but JCbackfire did confirm that it
  
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• Charlie Cox says the shock ending of Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 1 will lead to "interesting conversations and very unexpected revelations"

  25-03-2026 22:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 1 is now streaming on Disney Plus, and the ending of the season premiere sets up an interesting dynamic between Matt Murdock and one of his arch-enemies, which star Charlie Cox says will lead to big things in the rest of the season.Before we continue, be forewarned we'll be getting into some Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 1 spoilers, so turn back now if you haven't watched it yet.In the final scene of the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again seaso
  
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• The Sims creator blew 10 years and millions of dollars on his new game, laid off his whole team in 2024, and still isn't done: "I'd much rather have a glorious failure than a mild success"

  25-03-2026 22:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Will Wright blazed through the early video game industry like a comet – he co-founded Maxis, created the very first SimCity, The Sims in 2000, and released the ultimate life sim Spore in 2008. Much more quietly, Wright has spent the last decade on an AI-enabled, psychoanalytic thing with huge ambitions and zero budget, but he's determined to keep it breathing."Kind of like Frankenstein," Wright tells Vulture in a new profile. It's called Proxi: Yesterday’s You Tomorrow, and Wright's
  
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• New Faces of Death trailer is even grosser than the first, introduces Stranger Things star as villain

  25-03-2026 21:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new trailer for Faces of Death has arrived... and there's no warning label on it this time.This time around, the new trailer gives us a bit more violence and a bit more context. Barbie Ferreira's character isn't just some young woman obsessed with the old Faces of Death movies... she actually moderates a YouTube-like website and screens for violent or inappropriate content. When she stumbles upon a website that appears to be recreating some of the death scenes in the Faces of Death franchise,
  
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• After 37 years, cult classic NES Friday the 13th game has a fan remake made "from scratch" for Game Boy Color, and this time around you can actually take down Jason Voorhees

  25-03-2026 21:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  You and your friends are dead. Game over. 37 years later, 8-bit Jason Voorhees is back with a few more bits thanks to a fan-made remake of the cult classic Friday the 13th NES game built from the ground up for Game Boy Color. I have a love hate relationship with NES Friday the 13th. It's objectively bad, but it's by far my favorite of developer LJN's many retro atrocities. That might be because it's about Jason Voorhees, my favorite horror slasher, but I also genuinely enjoy its mood and tone an
  
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• I asked about Arc Raiders' mystery ships and a dev told me the same thing Embark is now teasing online: "I think you'll have to keep an eye on the sky for now"

  25-03-2026 21:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  The big Arc Raiders Flashpoint update is fast approaching, and ahead of the March 31 rollout, developer Embark Studios has begun a social media campaign teasing what looks like a powerful new Arc enemy. C0NTΔCT L0ST… M3LTΞD >>> ________[ team ] NΞVΞR RΞTURNΞD // signal.err VΔP0R1ZΞD // signal.err[ no signal ] pic.twitter.com/3xEIp4s7juMarch 25, 2026A short clip with robotic captioning suggests a few innocent raiders got themselves vaporized. Imagine
  
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• First trailer for HBO's new Harry Potter TV series looks familiar, but feels nothing like the films, and that's a good thing

  25-03-2026 20:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first HBO Harry Potter trailer is here, and it's nothing like the beloved film franchise... and we promise that's a good thing.In the trailer, which you can watch above, we meet a sad, bullied Harry Potter who gets his hair crudely chopped off by Petunia Dursley... and it looks like, rather than jump right into his adventures at Hogwarts, we're going to spend a bit more time in his hellish existence in the muggle realm at the hands of his aunt and uncle and their terrible child Dudley. The m
  
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• First trailer for HBO's new Harry Potter TV series feels nothing like the films, and that's a good thing

  25-03-2026 20:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first HBO Harry Potter trailer is here, and it's nothing like the beloved film franchise... and we promise that's a good thing.In the trailer, which you can watch above, we meet a sad, bullied Harry Potter who gets his hair crudely chopped off by Petunia Dursley... and it looks like, rather than jump right into his adventures at Hogwarts, we're going to spend a bit more time in his hellish existence in the muggle realm at the hands of his aunt and uncle and their terrible child Dudley. The m
  
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• Nintendo changing prices of Switch 2 exclusives in the US this spring: digital will be $10 cheaper than physical for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book

  25-03-2026 19:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nintendo of America has announced Switch 2 exclusives will soon no longer cost the same price between their digital and physical versions.In a March 25 news post, Nintendo explains, "Beginning in May 2026, and starting with preorders for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, new Nintendo published digital titles exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2 will have an MSRP that is different from physical versions." It blames this change on "the different costs associated with producing and distributing each format,
  
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• Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says latest layoffs will result in "a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality folks" because the downsizing "wasn't a performance-based 'rightsizing'"

  25-03-2026 19:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tim Sweeney wants the world to know that the more than 1,000 workers laid off in the latest Epic Games downsizing are great hires.This week, Epic let go of more than 1,000 employees, with Sweeney blaming a "downturn in Fortnite engagement" as well as "industry-wide challenges" and factors "unique to Epic" in a letter to staff. Today, he's encouraging employers and recruiters to keep an eye out for resumes coming from the talented people he no longer employs."In the coming days, employers will se
  
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• Fallout: New Vegas devs "did a great job" of shepherding the spirit of the RPG series, Bethesda veteran admits – "in some ways better than we did"

  25-03-2026 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  For many Fallout fans, New Vegas represents the upper echelon of the series. Obsidian's take on the wasteland is nuanced, grounded and a little darker than Bethesda's modern mainline entries. Former devs on 3 and 4 respect how Obsidian tackled the property, but they feel the comparisons can be a little unfair to what Bethesda achieved."I initially felt a little touchy about it," Jonah Lobe, a character artist on Fallouts 3 and 4, says of fans constantly talking up New Vegas on the Kiwi Talkz pod
  
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• Gillian Anderson urges X-Files fans to "have an open mind" over Ryan Coogler's upcoming reboot, as she shares reaction to first episode's script

  25-03-2026 18:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  The X-Files star Gillian Anderson has shared her verdict on Ryan Coogler's upcoming reboot – and it's safe to say, we're now more excited than ever to see what the Sinners director has in store. "We've had a few conversations. He's such a cool guy and so talented, and the pilot script is really good," the actor, who famously played FBI Agent Dana Scully, revealed at Washington DC's Awesome Con. "So, I would say, 'Have an open mind and give it a chance because it's gonna be f***ing cool.' I
  
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• Finally, CRKD is launching a pro controller that's shaped like a regular gamepad, and it promises TMR thumbsticks, six extra buttons, and a sub-$100 price tag

  25-03-2026 18:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Since its arrival in the gaming peripheral market in 2023, CRKD has been one of the standout brands in this space, but it's mainly specialised in making quirky, niche products that no other brand has really been targeting. It kicked things off with the Nitro Deck handheld mode controllers for Switch; it's made tiny, retro, and rhythm game controllers, but now, at long last, it's launching a "regular" pro gamepad that will take on some of the best PC controllers on the market.The CRKD Ult Pro loo
  
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• Dune: Awakening update adds new overland location, Landsraad missions, bug fixes, and more to Chapter 3 ahead of the survival MMO's upcoming server merges

  25-03-2026 18:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  A new Dune: Awakening update has arrived following the survival MMO's recent Chapter 3 update, and it packs quite the punch of content with a fresh overland location – The Ruins of Tsimpo – to explore and much more.Dune: Awakening 1.3.10 is here, bringing with it a plethora of bug fixes and changes that are already pleasing eager fans ahead of the upcoming character migration and server merges.
  As the official patch notes detail, the first big addition to come with the patch is The R
  
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• Razer's brand new Blade 16 gaming laptop manages to swerve RAMageddon with the same MSRP as last year

  25-03-2026 18:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  I accidentally stumbled across the new Razer Blade 16. While price checking some other accessories, its brand new face flashed up on my screen. That wasn't there yesterday, and after weeks of waiting for any sign of new machines it seems Sneki is quietly sidling into the party rather than making a grand entrance. The new Razer Blade 16 starts at $3,499.99 / £3,099.99 for an RTX 5080 / Intel Core Ultra 9 386H / 32GB RAM configuration, rising up to $4,999.99 / £4,399.99 for the top-spe
  
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• "How wrong I was" – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Ben Starr told friends to keep expectations "in check" before the RPG's launch because "this isn't going to be a smash hit"

  25-03-2026 18:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  I feel like you don't need to be told at this point about how big of a deal Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 became. It is already the most-awarded game ever, and that lead keeps growing. It is also on course to be the second game ever to take home the big five Game of the Year awards after Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023. Safe to say it's pretty big. But it's a game that almost felt like it came out of nowhere from first-time developer Sandfall Interactive, so naturally, many are surprised at how well the g
  
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• 5 reasons why you need to pay attention to AnimeJapan 2026, including possible Steel Ball Run answers

  25-03-2026 18:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  AnimeJapan 2026 is almost here. Essentially anime's answer to San Diego Comic-Con, this coming weekend will see cosplayers and mega-fans converging on Tokyo for a glimpse at the next 12 months in the industry.So, what can we expect? With only a panel schedule available, there are a lot of unknowns going into this year's event – but we have several educated guesses on what we can expect to come out of AnimeJapan 2026's likely wave of announcements and teases.Join us as we guide you through
  
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• Star Trek legend William Shatner shares his "sorrow" at Starfleet Academy cancellation, says the franchise "should exist for a long time"

  25-03-2026 17:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  William Shatner has spoken out about the surprise cancellation of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy."Star Trek exists in more than one world. It exists in the fantasy of science fiction - weird and wonderful things that play unimaginable possibilities of exploration and human endeavor," Shatner wrote on Twitter. "But it also exists in the fantasy of human beings, the perfection of human beings, the exploration that human beings have made since the dawn of time and the continuing exploration - physica
  
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• Palworld dev reluctantly goes back to work instead of playing more Crimson Desert, after sinking dozens of hours into its open world: "I love this game"

  25-03-2026 17:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's just under a week since Crimson Desert launched, and some players have already lost significant amounts of hours exploring Pywel. And by "some players," I mean John 'Bucky' Buckley, the head of publishing and communications at Palworld developer Pocketpair, who's been devouring the quasi-RPG from Pearl Abyss."Really want to stay home and just play 12 hours of Crimson Desert again but I guess I better go to work," he tweeted on March 24. "There’s [business] and Palworld to be done." Fu
  
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• John Wick spin-off star Donnie Yen wants to make it "the most definitive martial arts-infused action film ever made"

  25-03-2026 17:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Donnie Yen, who played Caine in John Wick 4, will soon be both starring in and directing his own spin-off movie – and, by the sounds of things, it will be pretty special. "What drew me to Caine is the contradiction. He carries love, responsibility, and sacrifice in a world built on consequence. That creates a very different kind of action hero," Yen said in a statement, via Deadline. "This film is an opportunity to push the genre forward," he continued. "My goal is to create the most defin
  
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• "No way haters will stop this": Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 lead says AI tech like Nvidia DLSS 5 will "replace expensive raytracing" someday, and "this is just a little uncanny beginning"

  25-03-2026 17:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nvidia recently unveiled its upcoming DLSS 5 technology with a controversial showcase of the AI-powered "breakthrough" (as the company calls it) in visuals, and it seems Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 lead Daniel Vávra has hope in the image-enhancing tool.Vávra, co-founder of Warhorse Studios and Kingdom Come: Deliverance director, shares his thoughts on the tech in a new online post. "I can imagine in the future devs will be able to train this tech for [a] particular art style or spe
  
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• Razer goes a step further than SteelSeries, offering five different speeds of its latest gaming mouse pad, and that's the kind of detail an FPS setup control freak like me wants

  25-03-2026 17:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Razer has announced its latest Gigantus mouse pad, and I'm sure there are probably lots of people out there thinking it's a bit much. Giving people five levels of mouse pad speed to choose from probably sounds a bit silly - at a certain point, isn't it more about your aiming skill than the gear you're using? Well, I'm one of those weirdos who actually cares about the nuances different gaming mouse pads can give you, so let me tell you why I'm all for it.The new Razer Gigantus V2 Pro goes even de
  
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• 6 months after Borderlands 4 launch, Gearbox admits "we have more to do" to fix ongoing PC performance issues but promises "we're in it for the long haul!"

  25-03-2026 17:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox knows the looter shooter launched in September with a swarm of PC issues attached to it, but it's already made some major performance changes – and it's prepared to make even more."A lot of our optimization work for PC players has centered on providing meaningful improvements in frame rate without noticeable sacrifices to the game, including visual fidelity, that are fundamental to the artistic intent of Gearbox's developers," Gearbox explains in a PC perfor
  
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• For the first time ever, Square Enix is crowned top publisher on Metacritic thanks to its 2025 run of remakes like Final Fantasy Tactics and Dragon Quest 1+2

  25-03-2026 16:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Square Enix is the top publisher of 2025 in terms of Metacritic scores for the first time since the review aggregator started posting its rankings. Since 2011, Metacritic has been compiling a ranking of game publishers, the likes of Take-Two,Capcom, and Microsoft picking up two wins over the years, while Sega is the only company to win three times for its 2015, 2020, and 2024 lineups. However, no one is matching Sega's record this year, as, for the first time since Metacritic began tracking rank
  
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• Blaze is teasing a new Evercade Nexus console, and the retro gaming glutton in me is hoping it'll be a PS2 era powerhouse

  25-03-2026 16:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  No one knows what the Evercade Nexus actually is yet, but Blaze just teased what could be a new best retro console contender with that moniker. All we officially know at the moment is that it's "coming soon" and you can sign up to the hardware maker's mailing list for more info, but I'm hoping we're about to get a next-gen system that will run PS2 classics.Okay, I'll admit, I'm getting ahead of myself when it comes to the Evercade Nexus. Even some of the best retro handhelds out there with punch
  
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• "You lost $40 million": Dev had Mortal Kombat rights yanked away because he went on a family vacation when the publisher believed he "should have been" chained to the studio

  25-03-2026 16:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Given Mortal Kombat's wild success at the arcades of the early '90s, home ports were inevitable – and they came from an array of different developers at differing levels of quality. At least one of them might have come from storied British developer Software Creations, if the company's co-founder hadn't been on vacation at a critical point in the development of a SNES Marvel game.At the time, Software Creations was working with publisher Acclaim on the SNES action title Spider-Man and the
  
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• The Mummy director defends the new Universal movie's "domestic setting" as he suggests the franchise's unique horrors shouldn't "be limited to tourists in Cairo"

  25-03-2026 16:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Mummy director Lee Cronin says the new Universal pic doesn't need to take place in Egypt in order to be absolutely terrifying."What I liked about it was it's a mummy movie set in a domestic setting, which no one's seen before," Cronin says in the latest issue of SFX."What's more frightening? A spider in the forest, or a spider beside your face in your bed? It's the latter. So trying to bring the horror home is something I'm always really interested in doing."The upcoming pic follows a journa
  
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• Pokemon Champions could run "forever" if the series does, producer says, even if that means cramming "10,000 Pokemon" into the PvP battler as part of the process

  25-03-2026 15:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Champions is planned to be updated "far into the future," even when there could be as many as "10,000 Pokemon," according to game producer Masaaki Hoshino. Speaking via interpreter in a group interview attended by GamesRadar+, Hoshino says he doesn't have "any specific concrete plans" he can share when I ask if the idea is for all Pokemon to be available in Champions, be it at launch or over time, thanks to future updates. However, he adds, "But of course, we want to include as many Poke
  
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• KPop Demon Hunters 2 may still be a way off yet, but at least we have this new short to quite literally whet our appetite

  25-03-2026 15:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Huntrix and the Saja Boys return in a new KPop Demon Hunters short, as an unlikely collaboration sees them battling for (fast food-loving) fans. Announced on March 24, Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix are teaming up with McDonald's to bring out combo meals centered around the two rival bands: Huntrix's is a 10-chicken nugget affair complete with Ramyeon McShaker fries, while the Saja Boys are catering to our breakfast needs with a sausage and egg McMuffin topped with Spicy Saja sauce. Fitting
  
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• Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo drops seemingly out of the blue, and fans are already going "feral" over it: "We're so hyped"

  25-03-2026 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've still got a few weeks to go until the long-awaited Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream release lands on April 16, but a new free demo from Nintendo means players can enjoy the cozy yet chaotic gem early – and boy, are they prepared to do just that.The Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo seemingly dropped right out of the blue earlier today, and the community is handling it… well, exactly as you'd expect it to.
  As one person on Reddit puts it, "Someone just told me it's out; we
  
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• Spider-Man: Brand New Day's Michael Mando joins Sydney Sweeney in the Gundam movie, calls it a "love letter to anime"

  25-03-2026 13:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix's long-delayed upcoming live-action Gundam movie is finally making moves, as Spider-Man: Brand New Day's Scorpion star Michael Mando joins the cast. Deadline reports that Mando has closed a deal to join Netflix and Legendary‘s Gundam movie in an undisclosed role. Both studios declined to comment. However, Mando shared the news over on Twitter, writing, "Entering this beautiful sci-fi opera. A love letter to anime."Mando joins Sydney Sweeney, Noah Centineo, and Jason Clarke, who wer
  
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• Robert Pattinson jokes "no one" was Team Jacob at the height of Twilight's success: "That was just a marketing thing"

  25-03-2026 13:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Way back in 2008, everyone had an answer for whether they were Team Edward or Team Jacob as Twilight became a cultural phenomenon that took over the world. According to Edward actor Robert Pattinson, though, the battle for who would win Bella Swan's heart was a little one-sided. "No one's Team Jacob," Pattinson said with a laugh when asked which side he was on by Canal Plus. "That was just a marketing thing." Team Edward ou Jacob dans Twilight ?On a posé la question à Zendaya et Ro
  
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• As Crimson Desert becomes the latest game to see AI art slip through the cracks, Mewgenics co-creator says concept art is "one of the worst" places to use it: "That's where you want to be the most creative"

  25-03-2026 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  The co-creator of Mewgenics and creator of Iron Lung are among the developers commenting on Crimson Desert's AI usage, agreeing that, mistake or not, it's useage is questionable regardless.Crimson Desert isn't exactly divisive, but it's a game with incredibly high expectations that most games could never live up to, launching to "Mixed" Steam reviews and perfectly fine critic review scores, which impacted Pearl Abyss's share price. However, the game is clearly a success, as its Steam reviews hav
  
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• Jimmy Olsen's mystery comedy show will feature things that haven't "been seen in the superhero genre" before, says showrunner

  25-03-2026 13:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've heard precious little about DC's Jimmy Olsen spin-off, but a co-showrunner on the upcoming series has broken cover to tease a little about what to expect from Superman's Pal.Speaking to The Direct, Dan Perrault pointed to his work with fellow showrunner Tony Yacenda on acclaimed Netflix mockumentary American Vandal – among other projects – as a key reason why he's a promising fit for the show, led by Skyler Gisondo."We've worked in this crime mystery comedy for a very long time
  
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• Doom co-creator John Romero worked on a Pokemon-like MMO that taught you maths, but "felt like you were playing World of Warcraft"

  25-03-2026 13:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  After defining the FPS space with Doom and Quake, John Romero went on to work on a host of other projects. One of them was an ambitious MMO known as Project Redwood that essentially merged World of Warcraft and Pokemon for younger players, and it sounds like it was pretty fun.During a recent event, Romero spoke about Project Redwood, revealing his aspirations and a distinct educational undercurrent within the game. "In World of Warcraft, when you're on any path, if you go off the path, you aggro
  
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• The Harry Potter show won't release a season a year, and everyone is united in saying that's a bad idea

  25-03-2026 12:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  HBO chief Casey Bloys has confirmed that releasing one season of the new Harry Potter show per year is not possible, and fans are not sure how to feel about it. Whilst speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Bloys was asked why the studio is able to release 15 episodes of The Pitt every year, when other shows have two-year-plus gaps. Bloys responded, "For some of the bigger shows like Harry Potter or House of the Dragon, or The Last of Us, huge world-building shows, it would be nice to have those on
  
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• Avengers: Doomsday star James Marsden says he was "very proud" to wear comics-accurate Cyclops costume after the "restrictive" black leather of the X-Men films

  25-03-2026 12:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Marsden will return as Cyclops in Avengers: Doomsday – and, this time, he'll be in a comic-accurate suit. So far, we've had a glimpse of the actor in his costume in the X-Men Doomsday trailer, but not much else has been revealed yet. Still, it sounds like Marsden was pretty grateful to switch up the costume from his previous appearances in the Fox universe. When asked by Jimmy Kimmel if he had any concerns over the costume, Marsden responded: "Yeah, of course. Would I fit in it? What
  
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• Speculation over DLSS 5 originally being an RTX 6090 feature is growing, but I wouldn't even want it near my future GPU

  25-03-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  I'm still recovering from the very concept of DLSS 5 and adding Nvidia gen AI weirdness to the best graphics cards, and I was originally convinced it was an RTX 6090 feature. That's not to say it'd get a pass if announced alongside next-gen GPUs, but now that enthusiast sites like Igor's Lab are sharing similar speculation, I'm more convinced the tech was pushed forward to the here and now.The article in question covers whether DLSS 5 was originally an RTX 6090 feature, but I want to stress that
  
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• Chainsaw Man fans share their reaction to manga's "pointless" ending: "Left me feeling complete indifference"

  25-03-2026 12:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Back in 2021, Chainsaw Man author Fujimoto Tatsuki said he wanted to make the manga ending "pretty meaningless" – and judging by the fan reaction to the recent last chapter, he may have succeeded.On March 24, the series wrapped with an issue that imagined what Denji's life would've been like had he never merged himself with Pochita. As Pochita realizes the suffering he's caused Denji, the creature eats his own heart and erases himself from existence, resetting the universe and resulting in
  
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• Death Stranding 2 dev says Hideo Kojima "wanted more people to enjoy" the sequel "all the way to the end" after complaints that the first game "might've been a little bit slow"

  25-03-2026 12:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Despite word that Hideo Kojima made Death Stranding 2: On the Beach a weirder game in response to early player feedback that was apparently "too good," a lead dev actually says he aimed to make the game in a way that it would be more likely for players to see the game through to the end. The comments arose from the game's co-composer Woodkid, however, Kojima clarified what actually happened after focus tests, saying that he actually made the game "more playable," and rather, he didn't want the g
  
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• Fortnite art lead behind iconic characters like Jonesy has been laid off by Epic Games, and fellow devs are paying tribute: "Fortnite looks like Fortnite because of you"

  25-03-2026 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Yesterday, it was announced that Fortnite developer Epic Games is laying off over 1,000 employees, and it's now come to light that one of those affected is the character art director who created the model for Jonesy, easily the most iconic and recognizable character in the battle royale.Vitaliy Naymushin has worked at Epic Games for over 11 years, and you need only look at his Artstation page to see what an impact he's had on Fortnite, with models for notable characters like Ramirez and a "femal
  
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• Half-Life 2 writer says Valve devs have "been looking" at gen AI for help with video game writing: "It's the one place where I feel like AI is worth investigating"

  25-03-2026 11:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  Valve writer Erik Wolpaw, who has gems like Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Portal under his belt, has shared his opinion on AI in video games – and a bit of what the company has done so far with the controversial technology – in a new episode of MinnMax.
  "A small group of people at Valve," he reveals, has "been looking at some AI stuff," and it's "taught him a bunch of stuff," apparently. He isn't concerned about the tech taking over any time soon, though."I'm currently not worried ab
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again season 2 debuts to near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, higher than season 1

  25-03-2026 11:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  It seems as though Daredevil: Born Again took criticisms on board last time around, as season 2 has debuted to a higher Rotten Tomatoes score than season 1. At the time of writing, Daredevil: Born Again season 2 sits at a near-perfect 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes, falling from 95% when the show first dropped. This is a step up from Daredevil: Born Again season 1, which currently sits at 87%. In our Daredevil: Born Again season 2 review, we call Born Again's sophomore season "a marked improvement
  
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• New Lord of the Rings movie takes place after Frodo's death and could feature Tom Bombadil

  25-03-2026 11:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now, this is a surprise: a new Lord of the Rings movie is in the works, partly written by talk show host and comedian Stephen Colbert and his screenwriter son, Peter.As part of Tolkien Reading Day, director Peter Jackson – who helmed the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies – hopped on social media to not only provide an update on Andy Serkis' The Hunt for Gollum, but also unveil the new chapter in Middle-earth.Colbert then jumped on the call, outlining the pitch for his Lord of th
  
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• Invincible season 4 has Iron Man in its sights as it pokes fun at MCU's superhero costume "problem"

  25-03-2026 09:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Invincible season 4 has delivered a playful jab to the MCU and its ongoing obsession with nanite helmets.Spoilers for Invincible season 4, episode 4 follow.Halfway through Mark's show-original descent into Hell, he throws himself into a pit alongside Clancy Brown's Damien Darkblood on the hunt for Volcania.With a decidedly awkward amount of time before they reach their destination, the pair get talking. Unfortunately, it soon becomes apparent that Mark is somewhat irritated and confused by Damie
  
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• Daredevil: Born Again season 2 sets up a connection between Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine and Kingpin, and it could have something to do with the Thunderbolts

  25-03-2026 02:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first episode of Daredevil: Born Again season 2 includes a brief connection to Thunderbolts/New Avengers and the larger MCU in a subtle but important way that could point to the future of the series as it rolls on.To get into it more, we'll have to offer up a very light spoiler warning for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 1, though we promise not to reveal anything extra important if you're hoping to stay mostly fresh.Ready? Here we go.In a key scene in Wilson Fisk's office, the New Yo
  
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• EverQuest is the next legacy MMO to get the "classic" treatment after WoW Classic and Old School RuneScape, but with a genius twist: it knows all of us olds don't have time for MMOs anymore

  25-03-2026 00:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  We're just waiting on you now, Ultima Online. Legacy MMO EverQuest is joining the likes of World of Warcraft Classic and Old School RuneScape with a new release mirroring the original 1999 release. However, while changes to vanilla World of Warcraft and RuneScape were minimal, EverQuest's "classic" treatment makes some key changes to acknowledge that people who played the game back in 1999 are probably at least in their mid-30s now, and presumably don't have the amount of free time they used to.
  
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